Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Let me speak at last,” she said. “For myself personally, I can’t conceive of love without family life. I am lonely, lonely… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I saw that all who do not profess an identical faith with themselves are considered by the Orthodox to be heretics, just… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Since the moment when, at the sigh of his beloved and dying brother, Levin for the first time looked at the questions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He wants to prove to me that his love for me must not interfere with his freedom” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“They haven’t an idea what happiness is; they don’t know that without our love, for us there is neither happiness nor unhappiness—no… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Pfuel was one of those theoreticians who so love their theory that they lose sight of the theory's object—its practical application. His… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I don't think anything," she said, "but I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He felt what a murderer must feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life. That body, robbed by him… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious –… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a lady at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He was not to blame for being born with an irrepressible charachter and a mind some how constrained.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
